David Abrahams said: > I have trouble reconciling the numbers marked off with carets below > if 2164 messages were trained (that's about how many I thought I was > training) how come only 73 ham and 91 spam were trained? Had you trained on those messages before? sb_mboxtrain.py adds a X-Spambayes-Trained: header to them. Try passing it the -f option. Erik